Crate/leaving him alone
Hoping people can offer some advice!
On the 9th we rescued Pickle, a 6 year old male Lurcher from dogs trust.
He's calmed down well and everything is good. Apart from night times and leaving him.
We started with baby gating him in the kitchen, and after a night of slowly removing things as he was causing mayhem, I ended up having to sleep down in the living room to keep him calm. Second night he discovered he could jump the gate at free will.
Third night we let him have the whole downstairs and he did settle on the sofa, but would wake up early to see what he could find and cause a bit of mayhem and a bit destructive. So clearing more just to get through the nights.
We then got a bigger baby gate to hope it would work, he then jumped that.
Our issue is he shows interest in wires and other things, we are also in a rented house so can't have him being destructive.
We then opted for a Crate on Saturday. And he settles in it well, as long as we are around.
Overnight is being upstairs he cries and whines, or leaving, crying and whining which looks to get progressively worse.
If he's not in the crate, which he isn't during the day when I WFH, he happily sleeps on the sofa with no whining. Its just being in the crate, but we need to crate him to keep him safe and protect a house that isn't ours. Also need to make sure our neighbours aren't hearing him sing through the night and if we leave.
The crate is behind the sofa, and we've slept down on the sofa and he's happy in there with us there. But upstairs he lasts a bit but struggles, but out of the house he won't settle it seems.
We've tried contacting dogs trust who have been useless. And we keep finding such contrasting things, of just let him whine it out. Or keep an eye on the camera and correct the whining. And we are feeling a bit lost and unsupported, and along with the lack of sleep. And a fear we could never leave him, we don't know how to go forward.
Any tips or advice or things we can try would be really helpful.